Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	love_n	unrighteousness_n	1,721	5	11.1941	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63550	The True loyalist wherein is discovered, First, the falsehood and deceipt of the solemn league and covenant, Secondly, that there is no salvation out of Christ, Thirdly, that the pope is the Anti-Christ, the man of sin, or the son of perdition, cum multis alias, &c. / by a true loyalist.	True loyalist.	1683 (1683)	Wing T2756; ESTC R31985	66,689	159

by believing in him contrary to his word the saving of the Soul f Heb. 10.39 but there is a great deal of difference between these Anti-Christs and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Anti-Christ the man of Sin and the Son of perdition This great Anti-Christ doth not only resist Christ in his Doctrine like these Anti-Christs but he goeth beyond them he is empatically the Liar he denyeth both the Father and the Son g 1 Joh. 2.22 and resisteth them also in their Divine and incommunicable headship and prerogatives 1. In their headship he sitteth in Christs Chair h Ezek. 37.22 John 10.16 Eph. 4.5 6. and makes himself his universal Vicar and Bishop another head with him to oversee the government of his Church Which is a thing repugnant even to common reason it self it inferring both redundancy and defect in his headship 1. Redundancy or superfluity there being heads sufficient already besides the Pope for external polity 2. Defect because an humane head is too little for so great a body as the universal Church for it is impossible as Bishop Jewel speaks in his Apology that any mortal should conceive or comprehend in his mind the whole Church to govern it it being of so large extent and divided by Seas into so many Countries therefore the Scripture maketh Christ alone the Head of the Church i Eph. 5.23 Head over all things not some things only but all things to the Church k Eph. 1.22 Yet 2. under this poor and groundless pretence this deceiver of Nations doth resist him also in his Divine and incommunicable prerogatives that are inseparably annexed to his headship He usurpeth all Christs power and Prerogatives over his Church he as God sitteth in the temple of God shewing himself that he is God l 2 Thes 2.4 and what mortal is there but the Pope that doth all this He most proudly impudently and absurdly unites two distinct Offices the Kingly and the Priestly in himself which is his due alone who is first a King then a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchizedeck m Heb. 7. he opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped n 2 Thes 24. he maketh himself King of Kings he taketh upon him to set them up and put them down at pleasue And he usurpeth Christs Priestly Office too he also maketh himself the Prince of Pastors the Bishop of Bishops yea the great Bishop of Souls He equalizeth his humane traditions to the word of God he pleads infallibility and makes his word de fide in Controversies and he takes upon him too to forgive sins and produce a Pardon All which every one knoweth that knoweth the Scriptures are the Royal and incommunicable Prerogatives of the Father and the Son And what should I say more Panormitan one of the Popes hired Proctors as Bishop Jewel * Defence of the Apol. Part 2. p. 95. observes saith Christus Papa faciunt unum consistorium excepto peccato Papa potest quicquid Deus ipse potest Christ and the Pope make one Consistory and keep one Court and sin only excepted the Pope can do whatsover God himself can do Now consider this and then judge whether the Pope be not the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the very Anti-christ the man of Sin indeed for what is more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Christ than sin I am sure that he of all sinners is the greatest Changer of the sear and Ordinances of the Lord and the King I be not afraid to publish this for before the great and terrible day of the Lord do come which cannot be long God knows when the man of Sin must be revealed o 2 Thes 2.2 3. His pride which at first raised him shall in the conclusion give him a fall as low as perdition The King of France as we hear * The London Gazitte Published by Authority Paris March 28. A. D. 1682. hath begun lately to effect it he hath by a perpetual and irrevocable Edict which was registred in Parliament the 23 instant approved and confirmed the opinion of his Clergy against him in four very important points 1. That the King is Independent in things Temporal that he cannot be Deposed nor his Subjects Absolved of their Allegiance for any cause whatever 2. That a General Council is above the Pope pursuant to the Decrees of the Council of Constance 3. That the Power of the Pope is to be limited by the Ancient Canons and that he cannot do any thing to the prejudice of the Ancient usages and the liberties of the Gallican Church 4. That the Decisions of the Pope in points of Faith are not infallible without the consent of the Church By this he hath shewed a most excellent example for all other Kingdoms and Principalities to demolish the Popes pride and supremacy Whereby without all doubt he hath purchased more honour than all his Predecessors have done before him And we hope in God who hath the Kings heart in his hand p Prov. 21.1 that he will persevere and purchase to himself yet more and more by a gradual Reformation of all his Antichristian Doctrines according to the Primitive pattern of our Church of England For 3. Anti-Christ deformed the Church by degrees and 't is not likely he should be reformed without degrees had a time to fall away he was not formed all at once the mystery of iniquity did at first only begin to work q 2 Thes 2.3 7. Yet he will tell you that he had his beginning from the Holy Apostle St. Peter but marvel not at that for he is the man of Sin he treads in the steps of his Father Lucifer r Isa 14.13 14. he was devoid of the truth from the beginning And accordingly by St. John as you heard before he is called a Liar ſ 1 John 2.22 Nor marvel that his followers have credited him in that report for his coming is after the working of Satan with all Power Signs and lying Wonders to deceive them into unrighteousness To whom because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved the Lord hath sent strong delusion that they might believe a lie to their damnation t 2 Thes 2.9 10 11 12. For the truth is from the first Plantation of Christianity in Rome till the time of Gregory the Great Bishop of Rome not Anti-Christ but St. Gregory when John bishop of Constantinople usurped the title of Universality there was no such thing as the name of an Universal Bishop heard of to be in Rome I suppose no where else in the World as plainly appears by an Epistle which this St. Greg. sent to this John Bishop of Constantinople to reprove him for usurping that proud and wicked title of Universality his words are these Nullus † Gregory lib. 4. Epist 36. unquam praedecessorum meorum hoc tam prophano vocabulo uti

would have perswaded the very Elect themselves that they were really a Godly Party true fearers of God indeed y Mat. 24.24 the more they had a mind to dishonour the King the more they pretended to fear the Lord How many Pharisaical prayers and superstitious Preachings were made to devour the Possessions of all True Loyalists even to the houses of poor Widows and the Fatherless z Mat. 23.14 How many sad Countenances and Bulrush necks to trumpet out the praise of their Saintship And how many Hypocritical sighs and groans too to blow up all Royalty and Loyalty and cheat the people into Rebellion All which either more or less was evident in most but especially in Cook that Famous or rather Infamous Preacher sigher and groaner and in Cromwell too the Head of their Rebellion * Boscobel or the Compleat History of his Sacred Majesties most miraculous preservation after the Battel of Worcester 3 Sept. 1651. Part. 1. p. 18. who when at Worcester fight he had marched over Powick Bridge a considerable number of his men to fight against his King said in his Hypocritical way The Lord of Hosts be with you That so the poor ignorant and credulous Rabble who knew no other cause but their pay why they were gathered together any more than the followers of Demetrius a Acts 19.40 or those two hundred that followed Absolom out of Jerusalem in their simplicity b 2 Sam. 15.11 thinking that it was Gods cause which they were ingaged in might be the more animated in their Rebellion But it is no wonder that these Rebels and Whetstones of Rebellion should thus dishonour the King when as for all their specious pretences they were not afraid to dishonour the Lord himself not only indirectly through the sides of his Vicegerent but immediately and directly in himself for time was then also when they did most impudently prophane Gods Sanctuary the House of Prayer the place where his honour dwelleth c Ps 26.8 they set up the abomination of desolation in the Holy Place where it ought not to stand d Mat 24.15 Hist Independ Compleat Part. 1. p. 170. Sir William Brereton Colonel General for the Cheshire Forces having given him the Arch-Bishops House and Lands at Croiden with Cashobery and other Lands of the Lord Capels worth 2000 l. per an for service done and to be done against the King and Kingdom reformed the Chapel there into a Kitchin This was a goodly reformation fitting with his Stomach as well as his Religion But O. Cromwell * Hist Independ Compleat Part. 2. p. 34 35. in proportion to his sublimity therein went beyond him when he and his reformed St. Pauls from the Church of God to a Den of Thieves Stable of Horses and Brothel of Whores out of envy I suppose to the King because it was the Head and Royal Church of the Kingdom And to cover his Prophaneness he would most ridiculously say his Prayers amongst his Horses And Lambert and his crue did not come far behind him when he threatened to pluck down Churches for Edification as they actually did the Kings house at Holmby And I may add too what hereafter I shall have better occasion to speak of in their changing that they then also thought it a great piece of Reformation to dishonour God publickly not only by doing their Carnal and Worldly business in his Sanctuary but also by being most irreverently and unmannerly covered even before their betters in his Holy Ordinances And O! that I could not say that even now time is that this sin of Prophaneness is still extant in some too many amongst us which without all doubt plainly declares nothing more than that they are still infected with their old Common-Wealth principles They are apt to complain of the reliques of Popery because they want Wisdom to discern the precious from the vile e Jer. 15.19 But I wish we had not juster cause to complain of the reliques of Fanaticism there be too many dregs of it lye at the bottom of this Nation which if they should be once stirred before they be refined it is much to be feared that they would quickly discover themselves on the top We have Church Fanaticks as well as Church Papists amongst us You therefore that are infected with the gangrene of Fanaticism with the leven or doctrine of these Phanatical Scribes and Pharisees f Mat. 16.6 12. it is behoofeful that you be very careful to purge it out from your Consciences by a timely true and unfeigned repentance that you may not corrupt others with evil manners but become a new Lump your selves g 1 Cor. 5.7 to win and confirm those in the truth that want it h Luk. 22.32 As Doctor Lee Colonel Richard * Boscobel Or the Compleat Hist of his Sacred Majesties most miraculous preservation after the Battel of Worcester Part. 1. p. 16. Ingolsby who since his Conversion was created Knight of the Bath at his Majesties Coronation and other real Converts have done in the same reformation This is a thing not to be dallied with but to be seriously considered in time and the rather because evil habits are as hardly forsaken as easily taken unless you take it for a thing indifferent as some of your Predecessors have done whether you are for ever happy or miserable Luke-warm Christians partly Fanaticks and partly Loyalists and Conformists that like a trembling Needle between two Loadstones incline to both and neither are as loathsome to God as the Laodiceans i Revel 3.14 15 16. You have sometime taken an Oath to be constant to true Loyalty and Conformity and what will you not fear your Oaths k Ecclesiastes 8.2 O remember therefore from whence you are fallen repent and do the first Works that God may have nothing against you l Revel 2.4 5. You cannot complan of any want of means for your recovery and restauration You have the Scriptures where the same God that hath taught you to fear him hath also in the same breath taught you to fear and honour the King and what will you not believe him who is so much truth it self by nature that he cannot lye m Tit. 1.2 and there he hath also taught you that his worship cannot consist without honour nor the Churches of the Saints without peace and order And what should I mention what means you have also had from the examples of well ordered Churches both Clergy and Laity when as the King himself Gods Minister and Vicegerent your head and Soveraign hath not only established the same according to his Lords commandment but hath also taught you by his own pious example how to reverence Christ your Head by uncovering your heads in his Church Holy House or Sanctuary And what will ye be worse than all the World besides Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis The whole world strives who shall the most follow the example